When the new rail fares come into effect, commuters travelling between New Delhi and Trivandrum on Rajdhani and mixed Duronto trains from January 21 onwards will have to pay Rs.124 to Rs. 406 more.<\/p>\n
As per the increased fare, the second class fare in express trains in the Trivandrum – New Delhi sector<\/strong> will go up from Rs.321 to Rs.445 and the sleeper class will go up from Rs.559 to Rs.745. Meanwhile A\/C three-tier fare will increase from Rs.1, 573 to Rs.1,885. For A\/C two-tier, the hiked prices will be Rs.2,835 and for first class A\/C tickets will increase from Rs.4, 642 to Rs.4,955.<\/p>\n \u2018\u2019It will create hardship and should be condemned. On the other hand, the Railway\u2019s commitment to the passenger community should now be doubled,\u2019\u2019 said K J Paul Manvettom, President, All Kerala Railway Users\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have to address problems related to quality of food, infrastructure and smooth travel. There is a situation now where passengers who have reserved seats well in advance find themselves without seats. Another problem is the extraordinary rush in reserved compartments. This is due to poor examination of tickets,\u2019\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n The price hike in tickets will have a significant impact on Kerala where thousands of people travel by train every day. Many Keralites live in cities such as Bangalore, New Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai and they will suffer the most as the ticket price hike is for per km travelled. The migrant labourers from West Bengal and the North-East who come here for work will also be affected by the price hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the new rail fares come into effect, commuters travelling between New Delhi and Trivandrum on Rajdhani and mixed Duronto trains from January 21 onwards will have to pay Rs.124 to Rs. 406 more. Related Stories ID Proof mandatory for Train travel. Trivandrum railway station gets \u2018Automatic Ticket Vending Machines\u2019 As per the increased fare, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[273,192],"class_list":["post-6994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-indian-railway","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}